it's not good for the economy. you look at the cuts and what happened to the defense department alone what it would do to the economy in terms of the unemployment rate is serious. i don't think that anybody laid forth any kind of serious plan. the president's plan doesn't talk about entitlement spending at all and continues to load everything on the defense department. looksh i'm all for, you know, cutting where there can be cutting. but you can't constantly go to defense department and ask them to do as much as they're doing and pretend to cut them and pretend like the entire pie does not exist over here this needs to be dealt with. >> bret: steve, by the way, that warren act thing we -- the warn act thing we will follow up on that. that is a ponial problem for trial attorneys may be licking their chops. not sure. >> it seems to catch gene sperling by surprise, he didn't have a ready answer how they would handle this. it would be the perfect cota to the entire episode if it ended with the federal government paying